Devadasi System News Today

India News: Thirukkural with the Times explores real-world lessons from the classic Tamil text ‘Thirukkural’.

A booklet was released highlighting the set of communications passed by the Secretariat of Women and Child Development in the presence of Jaishankar, Secretary of the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority; K Naganna Gowda, Chairperson, Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights; and Anjali Ramanna, Trustee, Child Rights Trust.

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Much of what is said about classical dance and music today has been constructed on the erasure of aesthetic and cultural practices of local communities.

On paper the devadasi system is banned. Yet, across South India, it continues to cast a long shadow of violence in the lives of Dalit women.

Counsel for petitioner, Umesh, argued that banning the Chintamani Natakam was a violation of freedom of speech

In a stark example of how the shackles of the Devadasi system have been haunting its victims for generations, a woman from a Devadasi family asked officials and experts on Tuesday about the rule that mandates her to provide the name of the father to get government benefits.  At an event organised by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority and the Children of India

Express News Service VIJAYANAGARA: In a chilling reminder that some parts of Karnataka have managed to keep alive inhumane practices like the Devadasi system, a 19-year-old girl from Vijayanagara district was rescued last week, after she tipped off police about her parents’ shocking plan to push her into this tradition.  The district administration and officials from the Devadasi Nirmoolana Kendra, a centre that works under the women and child welfare department, rescued the girl and warned...